What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool.
1994
PR468.S6 P66 1994 (Mapit)
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Title
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew : from fox hunting to whist : the facts of daily life in nineteenth-century England / Daniel Pool.
Author
Pool, Daniel.
Edition
1st Touchstone ed.
ISBN
0671882368 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994, c1993.
Language
English
Description
416 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PR468.S6 P66 1994
Summary
Filled with lively essays and a glossary of obscure terms, this unique reference--organized by subject--is a practical and entertaining compendium of information and insight on this time of debtor prisons, bedlam, and that wonderful disease of sense and sensibility, "putrid fever". Illustrations.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-403) and index.
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